Obama rallies troops; Romney sees flood
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Updated 5:53 p.m., Friday, August 31, 2012
(AP) — Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan plunged headlong into the fall campaign Friday on a two-track mission to convince Americans that the GOP nominee is not only the right man to fix the economy but an all-around leader for the nation.

Obama, Romney take a time out to observe 9/11 anniversaryPresident Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney pulled their negative ads and avoided campaign rallies in honor of the 11th anniversary ... At least 1,987 U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan and 4,475 in Iraq, according to the Pentagon.09/11/2012 - 3:59 am | View Link

Obama rallies in Iowa on 'Road to Charlotte' tour"This November you get to decide the future of this war in Afghanistan," Obama told the crowd. "Governor Romney had nothing to say about Afghanistan last week, let alone offer a plan for the 33,000 troops who will have come home from the war by the end of ...09/1/2012 - 9:58 am | View Link

Obama in Afghanistan, sees 'light of new day''Later, back at the base, he was surrounded by U.S. troops, shaking every hand ... the president of politicizing the event, and Romney is insisting that he would indeed have ordered U.S. forces into action. Obama slipped out of Washington, flew all night ...05/1/2012 - 9:09 pm | View Link

Obama in Afghanistan sees 'the light of a new day'Later, back at the base, he was surrounded by U.S. troops, shaking every hand ... the president of politicizing the event, and Romney is insisting that he would indeed have ordered U.S. forces into action. Obama slipped out of Washington, flew all night ...05/1/2012 - 2:30 pm | View Link

Obama in Afghanistan, sees 'light on horizon'"There's a light on the horizon," he told U.S. troops on the one-year anniversary ... president of politicizing the event, and Romney is insisting that he would indeed have ordered U.S. forces into action. Obama slipped out of Washington, flew all night ...05/1/2012 - 12:43 pm | View Link

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Ohio Romney RallyElection observers believe that Ohio is the state most likely to decide who becomes our next President. These interviews were conducted with Ohio voters at ...03/28/2015 - 12:38 am | View Website

Greece's organization for medium and small businesses says the country risks product shortages as early as May, as businesses face liquidity problems and foreign suppliers will only accept cash for imports. Ciara Lee reports.

Sharif Mobley, missing in the Yemeni prison system for more than a year, tells his lawyers he is on an army base being targeted in Saudi-led bombing campaignA US man missing in the Yemeni prison system for more than a year has used a smuggled mobile phone to tell his lawyers that he is being held on an army base that has been targeted in a Saudi-led bombing campaign.

Police are deflecting speculation that media spokesman Spence Jackson’s suicide is connected to that of his boss, state auditor Tom SchweichPolice investigating the death of Missouri Republican media spokesman Spence Jackson have sought to play down speculation that his suicide was “correlated” with that of his boss, Tom Schweich, the state’s auditor.

Ten years ago today, after a long legal battle between her husband and her parents, Terri Schiavo died two weeks after her feeding tube was removed. It was a spike in the debate about the right to die that persists to this day.